Bad camera angle. Trust me. A huge part of the car sticks into the road. The tree may not be in 30% of the bay, but it eats up about that much of the room to park. Unless you want to bash your car, that is.

sorry it looked it from the photo, obviously i'm not doubting you but being generous it's would be not more than a 1\4 of the space which is 25% and more likely 1\8 which is only 12.5% or even 1\16 which is only 6.25%??
have you thought of parking your car diagonally in the space?? you would easily get it in then??
paul

1slipperyfish (troll) wrote:...being generous it's would be not more than a 1\4 of the space which is 25% and more likely 1\8 which is only 12.5% or even 1\16 which is only 6.25%??

It's less a matter of actual space taken up and more of what's left to park in after that tree is taken into account.

1slipperyfish (troll) wrote:...have you thought of parking your car diagonally in the space??

Problem is that the road it's on is very narrow, so sticking out too far isn't an option. Plus, parking diagonally covers the hash lines, meaning people parking next to me can't get a wheelchair up to the car.

Unless they moulded that piece of concrete around the it, it looks like the tree was planted during construction... so I agree, this was plain stupid, it could easily have been planted a few feet to the left (in the hashed zone).

You try putting a wheelchair in the boot and 2 kid's seats in the back of a sensible sized car. Been there. Tried that. Next one will be larger.

As for when they were planted... They predate the disabled bays by a way. The council changed the bays to disabled and made them wider, so they ended up with badly positioned trees and didn't uproot them.